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light talk



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The light talk was punctuated by a few delicately probing questions and long, revelatory answers.

From Los Angeles Times May 8, 2023

The sailors, all from the Philippines, are a little tired-looking and taciturn, but they crowd around Chapman and DeLeon for light talk in English and Tagalog.

From Seattle Times Sep. 30, 2022

It was mostly fun, light talk radio fare, but it started to get chippy over the question of “Who was the last team to win it all?”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 24, 2020

Nixon was subdued but gracious as Frank Sinatra and Bob Hope made light talk to lift his spirits.

From Time Magazine Archive

The supper passed in quiet, with light talk of familiar things, the vicomtesse, always a taciturn woman, saying but little.

From The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)




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